Krik81 - yea. Plus, to spin that one further, pitty it's not down because parents discovered it was bad child-rearing to throw a gigantic bash centered around the male offspring's willy, thus demonstrating to him that his penis is for all intents are purposes at the center of the universe.Spend-half-the-family's-yearly-income-first-menstruation bash for the daughters? I think not. Even though that, at least, would make some kind of sense.

It is quite barbaric. In fact, I'm trying to start a movement called the Save The Umbilicus Foundation. I mean really. To mutilate little babies by hacking off their umbilical cord, I swear. Those heathen bastards.

Labberdasher: No, THIS sentence indicates what place the girls get in their society.Sitting in his restaurant above Circumcision Palace, he points to a group of teen-age girls dining on shish kebab, and considers that each of them might have at least two sons.